Highlights and story introductions from The Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Cao Cao recruited troops and horses, joined Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan, Sun Jian and other seventeen groups of troops to attack Dong Zhuo. Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei followed Gongsun Zan. Dong Zhuo's general Hua Xiong defeated Sun Jian, the vanguard of the Eighteenth Army, and killed two other generals in front of the battle line. He was very proud. The eighteen princes were all panicked and at a loss what to do. Yuan Shao said: "It's a pity that my generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou are not here. Otherwise, we would not be afraid of Hua Xiong." As soon as he finished speaking, Guan Yu shouted loudly: "Young general is willing to kill Hua Xiong." Yuan Shao thought that Guan Yu was just a horse archer, so he said angrily, "We have hundreds of generals from the 18th Route, but we want to send a horse archer to fight." Guan Yu said loudly, "I am." If you can't kill Hua Xiong, please chop off my head." After hearing this, Cao Cao was very impressed, so he poured a glass of hot wine and handed it to Guan Yu, saying, "General, drink this glass of wine before you kill the enemy." Guan Yu accepted. He took the wine glass, put it on the table and said, "Wait until I come back and drink again!" After saying that, he got on his horse with a big knife in his hand.